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DUST BAN. I No. 301,595. 4 Patented July 8, 1884.

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CHARLES HODGETTS, OF CHELSEA, ASSIGNOR TO ALVA L. HOLLANDER AND CHAS. H. BRADSHAW, BOTH OF SOMERVILLE, MASS.

DUST-PAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 301,595, dated July 8, 1884.

Application filed May 23, 1884. (N model.)

To all whont it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES Honenrrs, of Chelsea, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Dust-Pans, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in dust-pans in which a tray is held by means of a suitable handle to receive sweepings from a broom.

The objects of my improvements are to render the tray more durable by binding its turned-up sides together to prevent spreading or bending and by protecting the edge with which the broom comes in contact, and to prevent the sweepings which fall into the tray from being carried out of it by the return movement of the broom.

hIylinvent-ion consists in a metal re-en'force inclosing the forward edge of the tray and extray, a receptacle for'the sweepings, as here- 'inaftendescribed, reference being had to the the tray, I fold over it a strip of metal, D, usually tin, and solder it in place, thereby providing three thicknesses of metal, instead of one thickness only, as heretofore at the forward edge, where the most Wear occurs. The" upper part of the metal strip D is extended back and secured to the tops of the sides of the tray, thereby forming a receptacle, a, into which the sweepings fall out of reach of the broom on its return movement, and also binding the sides of the tray together to prevent their spreading or bending. This receptacle also securely retains the sweepings and pre vents them from falling out of the tray while being carried to be emptied. To empty the tray its forward edge is elevated sufficiently to cause the contents of the receptacle to fall by gravity to the side next to the handle.

I claim as my invention l. The combination, with the dust-pan, o a metal strip secured to the tops of the sides to prevent them from bending and spreading, substantially as set forth.

'2. The combination, with adust-pan, of a metal strip inclosing its forward edge and eX- tending back over the sides to form a receptacle, substantially as set forth.

CHARLES HODGETTS.

NVitnesses: I W. A. COPELAND, J. R. Snow. 

